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White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January

posted by mrpg on Wednesday December 20 2017, @08:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the sure dept.

takyon writes:

The White House is briefly shutting down the "We The People" petition website, but promises that all existing petitions will be reinstated on the new, less costly site:

The White House has said it will be shutting down its website for petitions from midnight on Tuesday until a new one is set up in late January. The "We The People" site was set up by the Obama administration in 2011. It promised a response to all petitions drawing more than 100,000 signatures but the Trump administration has not responded to any since January.

The White House said its new platform would save taxpayers more than $1m (£746,500) a year. The total budget of the White House for 2018 is $55m and its information technology budget for the year is $4.94m.

A White House official told the Associated Press news agency that the administration would "respond to public concerns next year" and that all existing petitions would be reinstated then.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 20 2017, @08:26AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 20 2017, @08:26AM (#612210)

    Good god we knew this would happen! He is firing all of the IT staff and replacing them with cheaper Russian agents! They will hack petition results and change them to benefit Putin in his goal to conquer the world and destroy the united states. This has to be stopped we must impeach now and fire a first strike at Russia!

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  • (Score: 5, Touché) by Joe Desertrat on Wednesday December 20 2017, @08:55AM

    by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Wednesday December 20 2017, @08:55AM (#612219)

    Not to mention removing all the bad words like "science" and "evidence".

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday December 20 2017, @09:22AM (4 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 20 2017, @09:22AM (#612226) Journal

    Whoever modded that post informative probably missed the sarcasm font . . .

    • (Score: 5, Touché) by c0lo on Wednesday December 20 2017, @09:50AM (3 children)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 20 2017, @09:50AM (#612230) Journal

      Whoever modded that post informative probably missed the sarcasm font . . .

      You know? There actually is such a thing as "sarcastic modding"

      Now... explicitly mod me +Sarcastic (grin)

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      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Wednesday December 20 2017, @03:25PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 20 2017, @03:25PM (#612317) Journal

        I would add: +Sarcastic, +Inciteful, +Cynical, +SadButTrue.

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      • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Wednesday December 20 2017, @05:45PM (1 child)

        by captain normal (2205) on Wednesday December 20 2017, @05:45PM (#612401)

        I don't know about that. But there is a blank line between troll and spam. Wonder what that does?

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        • (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Wednesday December 20 2017, @06:05PM

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 20 2017, @06:05PM (#612420) Journal

          Nothing. I just tried.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 20 2017, @10:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 20 2017, @10:09AM (#612235)

    Of course we knew it would happen. After all, the site was set up by Obama. Trump's #1 goal is to undo anything Obama did to the maximum extent possible.